Occasional Thoughts

• WYSIWYG Editor: Finally no more fidling with <code> tags. That was always a nightmare in Wordpress. I had to enter it in the HTML code, but after switching back to the WYSIWYG view it was messed up. With Serendipity I can do all the formatting in the great HTML editor that is much more powerful. It even supports a full browser screen view. Writing articles just as with a text processor.
• Threaded comments.
• Clean separation of themes and layout. You can rearrange the side bar elements using drag and drop without editing theme files that are lost, when changing the theme.
• Captchas - how can Wordpress still exist without out of the box Captcha support today? Oh, Akismet anti spam is supported, too.
• Users can subscribe to comments and get an Email, when a reply is posted. Great for a low-traffic site like mine. Who wants to visit my blog daily just to wait for my answer?
• Import, import, import... Import filters for a lot of sources. In my case Serendipity just took my old wordpress database and imported all old articles. So far I haven't found any problems. Just a minor glitch: Images are shown, but are still located on the WordPress blog and some links point to old entries. Not a big problem as I have enough space here. I'll just leave WordPress running under it's old URL and serendipity get's its own root folder: blog2.0 .
• Calendar - altough I haven't installed a plugin in Wordpress that shows it, it's a nice gadget. Available out of the box with Serendipity.

There is just one thing I am currently missing and that is the possibility to create static pages. A little step toward a CMS. But maybe I just haven't found it yet.